docs/context/hackathon_guidelines.md

essential links

• registration (hackiterate): join the platform
• luma event: event details (for status updates and communications).
• hugging face organization: join the org (must join to receive credits and submit).

timeline & deadlines

• hf org joining deadline: friday evening (paris time) to receive compute credits.
• hacking starts: saturday morning (local time).
• hacking ends: sunday, 4:00 pm (local time).
• likes extraction: friday, march 6 at 12:00 am paris time (to determine the most liked project wild card for the finals).
• online winners announcement: expected by friday, november 6.
• finals: monday, march 9 on the mistral youtube channel.

hacking tracks

1. fine-tuning (sponsored by weights & biases)

   • goal: fine-tune a mistral model to perform a task that the base model struggles at.
   • requirement: upload the fine-tuned model and adapters to the official hugging face org.
   • tools: encouraged use of w&b models and weave for tracking and evaluation.

2. anything goes

   • goal: use any mistral model to create the best project.

credits & resources

• mistral ai: $15 coupon for api credits.
• hugging face: $20 in "hugging face jobs" credits for joining the org.
• 11 labs: credits available for text-to-speech (tts) integrations.
• aws: $100 in credits per person/team for amazon bedrock and cloud resources.

rules & guidelines

• originality: everything must be built during the hackathon weekend. showcasing prior work is prohibited.
• data preparation: you are allowed to prepare and clean your datasets before the weekend starts.
• open source: to be eligible for judging, your code (github) and models (hugging face) must be public.
• teams: 1 to 5 members per team.

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happy hacking!